History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c11.s2.1

c11.s2.1

In the *Bhagavatī Sūtra*⁴ Gosāla Maṅkhaliputta, as the Ājīvika leader is called by the Jainas, is said to have made a remarkable statement, which perhaps indicates the existence of a line of Ājīvika teachers whose spiritual mantle had fallen upon his shoulders.